Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Leeds United: Entertainment!
While Reach's speculative strike had the satisfying audacity of a stunt, Klich made something artful, deliberate and beautiful. It's the difference between watching two magpies have a fight in your garden, or watching a nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough.
Two brilliant goals were scored in this exciting game of football and Leeds United should have won. Despite feeling disappointed to only draw, Leeds swaggered away from Hillsborough with esteem intact; not even Adam Reach's absurd goal had damaged them.
My heart sank when that long range half-volley soared and dipped into the top bin, hitting one post with a crack and bouncing over the line near the other, sending Bailey Peacock-Farrell spinning, despairing. It wasn't only that it gave Sheffield Wednesday an undeserved lead, but that it was such an outrageous goal we were cursed to watch replays of it forever. The Wednesday club shop might add to its stock of 6-0 DVDs with a film of this goal on loop for an hour, and given enough time and distance from the event, I might even watch that myself one day as a sort of retro novelty. But for that to happen there would have to be a time in between when it wasn't replaying on social media or television, and I doubted that would ever happen for long. It was a good goal. Well done. Go away.
Fortunately Mateusz Klich still has the Midas click that is making this season his best, and is spellbound by goalscoring form Leeds haven't enjoyed from a midfielder since Alex Mowatt dropped two lyrical bangers in one week against Huddersfield and Cardiff. He took a layoff from Tyler Roberts, took a look — foot, ball, keeper, goal — then combined the first two to swerve a shot around the third, into the cornerest part of the net in the fourth. Now, here's a goal I'll watch on DVD forever, because while Reach's speculative strike had the satisfying audacity of a stunt, Klich made something artful, deliberate and beautiful. It's the difference between watching two magpies have a fight in your garden, or watching a nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough.